Hi Don,
I just upgraded my iBook from Panther to Tiger using a disk image on
a firewire drive. I'd backed up everything important and wasn't too
concerned if anything disappeared.
Selected all the default settings during the installation and to my
surprise all the programs and data were unchanged. Had about 1 GB
less on the 40GB drive than before the installation.
Of course, YMMV!
Amanda
On 02/02/2006, at 6:18 PM, Donald A Parsons wrote:
Any advice and / or experience with this question would be
appreciated.
I have a G5 iMac currently running on MacOS 10.3.8 with a 160GB HD
(not currently partitioned). I use a 200GB Firewire external HD
with two equal sized partitions ( approx. 100GB each ). The first
partition contains my cloned back-up ( via SuperDuper ), of my G5
iMac , with the second partition containing various jpeg picture
files and PDF files.
I want to upgrade my OS 10.3.8 to OS X 10.4 (Tiger) but don’t want
to possibly jeopardize any current files. Can I install Mac OS X
10.4 to the second partition ot the external Firewire drive and use
that partition to boot Tiger on this G5 iMac, and thus learn to
use Tiger and gradually upgrade the installed third party software
with the goal of ultimately using it to clone back to the then
partitioned 160GB main hard-drive of the G5 iMac.
I don’t know if I am confusing info about the first partition
requirement of the beige G3 for Mac OS X, with the possibilities of
the G5 iMac.
Thank you. Any help appreciated.
Don
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